Posted on 05/05/2006 8:17:23 PM PDT by STARWISE
To be tentatively titled, "Fair Game."
Dirty $$ Ping!
this is her "payoff" from the DNC and their wealthy patrons. Let's see how they reward Fitzgerald when the time comes.
PUKE!
PUKE!
PUKE!
Bush gets bashed and the Treasonous wench gets a big $$$$ book deal....
GOD have MERCY on America...
Interesting title, but it can apply in both directions and their 'game' was never about fairness.
Hmmmmm....wonder when the scheduled "release" is for.....October 08? most likely.
Amen my FRiend!!!
I think that eeevil's PUKE comment, pretty much sums up my feelings about this as well...
I bet Fat Timmy, and Spitty Chrissy already have her booked for a whole hour...oh, and 60 Minutes, also.
You got it!
Maybe Porter Goss' resignation and Plame's book go hand in hand. Who knows what the woman intends to leak? Yep, '08 sounds about right.
Same deal as the Clintons? Huge advance, no repayment of the advance when lousy sales sends it to the remainder bin? Fawning reviews of a lousy hack-written ghost job?
I don't see a story here. I can't see that anything has happened that people would pay money to read about. This does not sound like a business decision.
it doesn't matter whether the book sells or not - her "contract" is a way to deliver money to her for services rendered, and make it look like a private sector financial transaction.
VALERIE PLAME WILSON'S SEVEN-FIGURE DEAL [Byron York]
While her husband's actions were being questioned in the Libby courtroom, Valerie Plame Wilson was wrapping up her book deal. The New York Times reports that Mrs. Wilson will be paid "a little more than $2.5 million" for "Fair Game," scheduled for publication in Fall 2007 by Crown.
Posted at 7:58 PM
I thought her being outed hurt her sooooo much..BIOTTTCCHHH!
I heard John Gibson's radio show tonight...and his theory is that friends of Plame in the CIA have found "something" against Goss...to pay the Bush Administration back...
And, whatever it is...it has forced Goss to quit...he said that the comments at the announcement with Bush just sounded like they were both in shock.
Don't know if Gibson knows any more than anyone else...just reporting what I heard.
I'll repeat what I said on another thread. It would be poetic justice if she had to spend this money on attorneys fees to defend her sorry husband after his arrest for some of his capers.
Boris & Natisha need to be told, They are not special,
their 15 mins are up and the only people who will buy Natisha's book are her groopies.
"Maybe she will finally answer the big question.... does Joe wear boxers or briefs?"
That pretentious lardbucket would claim he goes "commando."
probably a take on Rove calling Chris Matthews and telling him that Joe Wilson's wife was "Fair Game"
its pretty obvious by now that the adminisrtation isn't going to prosecute anyone.
Once a whore, always a whore.
Yup .... purportedly "in the fall" --- what does THAT tell ya??
You're right, but I haven't given up hope.
I have.
"The administration" cannot prosecute anybody.
The Justice Department, however, will prosecute when the timing is right. May isn't the right timing. Besides which, they want good cases that will stick. Dot the 'i's and cross the 't's.
Yes I agree, playing the 'victim'. Maybe somebody who knows what the real game was will pen the story under the title "That Woman That Tried To Save Saddam".
last time I looked, the attorney general works for the President.
Haha! Ewwwww! Haha!
I'm sure uncle Joe had editorial privilege on all the intimate story lines.
Did I type that, or was I channeling Ann Coulter?
What could she possibly put in a book that anyone would pay to read?
Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative whose unmasking led to a federal investigation and the indictment of a top vice presidential aide, has agreed to a book deal with the Crown Publishing Group.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but two sources close to the negotiations said the deal was in the low seven figures. Several publishers had competed for the memoir, scheduled to come out in the fall of 2007 and tentatively titled "Fair Game."
In 2003, White House adviser Karl Rove reportedly said Plame was "fair game" after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of distorting intelligence about Iraq to justify going to war.
"She will tell her whole story, absolutely," Crown's publisher and senior vice president, Steve Ross, said Friday. "This book will be the first time the public will get to hear about her work and the surprising role she had in intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the war in Iraq."
Ross also said that Plame would tell of "being a high ranking woman in the male-dominated intelligence community." He said Plame would write the book herself and that "one of the most pleasant surprises was the quality of her craftsmanship and the richness of her storytelling" in the book proposal she submitted.
How much Plame, now retired from the agency, will reveal could be complicated by two factors: The CIA, which reviews the manuscripts of former agents and has reportedly become stricter about what it will permit, and next year's scheduled trial of I. Libby Lewis, the former chief aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Libby is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI and a federal grand jury about how he learned about Plame's identity and what he subsequently told reporters about her. Rove remains under investigation.
Ross acknowledged that Plame could be subject to CIA censorship, but said restrictions "would be a potential public relations land mine if the CIA was seen as trying to block" too much of her book. Commenting on Libby's trial and any possible future indictments, Ross said that "Obviously, we would not want to publish anything that would jeopardize any important legal cases."
The scandal emerged after Joseph Wilson took a trip at the CIA's request in early 2002 to Niger. The CIA sought to determine whether there was any truth to reports that Saddam Hussein's government had tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger to make a nuclear weapon. Wilson discounted the reports. Nevertheless, the allegation wound up in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address.
Citing senior Bush officials, syndicated columnist Robert Novak named Plame in a column on July 14, 2003, eight days after Wilson alleged in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the Bush administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war.
Plame has made few public statements since her status was revealed, {{{{SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO -- HER PIMP CAN'T SHUT UP!}}}} although she appeared with her husband in a photograph that ran in Vanity Fair in 2004. Plame and Wilson recently attended the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Wilson himself wrote a book, "The Politics of Truth," published by Carroll & Graf in 2004.
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Crown is an imprint of Random House group, which is a subsidiary of the privately-held and HUGE Bertelsmann AG
Bertelsmann is so big, it needs space in the bookcase, CD rack, and magazine stand. One of the world's top media firms, Bertelsmann has publishing, music, and broadcasting operations in nearly 60 countries. It owns #1 trade book publisher Random House and 50% of #2 music company Sony BMG Music Entertainment. It also has a 75% stake in magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, owns 90% of RTL Group, Europe's #1 over-the-air broadcaster, and owns media services firm arvato. In addition, Bertelsmann owns several book and music clubs, and online retail channels. Carl Bertelsmann founded the company in 1835. His descendants, the Mohn family, and company execs control the firm. Groupe Bruxelles Lambert owns a 25% stake.
Ping
Yeah. We know. You're depressed. We've come to expect it.
That's beautiful!!
show me something to cheer up about regarding this story - and I will. got anything?
That is the state of the state. And it's been that way for a long time. We can bitch all we want to and it won't change a thing.
Maybe we could get her to reveal the contents of the Barrett Report in the book...and then, even Republicans might buy it....LOL
Any freepers that are not seeing the "joke" that this is need to take a deep breath.
If you are mad at Bush...then you should be happy, this will just add to the pile on...
If you are a Bush fan....this isn't gonna do anything to hurt him or you anymore than anything else...so, no big deal, IMHO>
NO! Bush is the problem. If he truly was a CONSERVATIVE leader he had the power to put the pressure on these
leaks on these news outlets, on the numerous cow-towing to the vermin commies that exists in the nation. Problem is he was elected as a puppet to these vermin. This nation is on it's total downfall & Bush & the Klintoons are all interrelated to make it happen. Pls vote this corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" out & save this country.
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